Internal Evangelist of the Year 2009

This was a great moment for me personally, but more importantly a great moment for CSC. At a time when few large case studies exist of companies making progress in large-scale Enterprise 2.0 deployments, CSC was able to demonstrate its thought leadership in this new area. We now are in the forefront of this area with the likes of Lockheed Martin, EMC and Booz Allen Hamilton in taking advantage of these newer type of tools enabling greater collaboration, collapsing time zone and distance barriers.

In just 20 weeks, our C3:Connect. Communicate. Collaborate. pilot achieved 25,000 registered users and over 2000 groups of interest. The metrics and user anecdotes from this pilots were so convincing that the pilot proved to be a successful 5th stage in our business case ensuring the continuity of the platform from pilot to full enterprise program.

This award was introduced at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference by e2 Moderator – Andrew McAfee, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, Principal Research Scientist.

He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He is also a blogger about Enterprise 2.0 and his book Enterprise 2.0 will be published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press.

Presenting the Award itself and a token gift was speaker – Robert Brown, SVP of Client Services, Jive Software.

In my acceptance speech I recognized the tremendous executive sponsorship we had behind this program and recognized Lem Lasher, John Glowacki, Ralph Pacheco, Dave Bogan, and Judy Annett-Donnelly for their sponsorship, guidance and support for this effort.

And of course, the success of our work at CSC would not have been possible without the hard work and dedicated efforts of our core team members John Chambers, John Macioci,Don Henn, our global advocates, and C3 lifeguards who worked so hard with us over the months to make the adoption of this program a success and beneficial to our employees.

About The 2.0 Adoption Council

The 2.0 Adoption Council is a collection of managers in large enterprises that are charting the course for Enterprise 2.0 adoption in companies with 10,000 employees or more. As “internal evangelists” we all share a common enthusiasm for bringing a new way of working to our representative companies. The “Internal Evangelist” (IE) has to carefully balance the needs of the business with an incredible responsibility to drive change in the organization with tools and practices that are outside of the comfort zone of most large enterprise employees, not to mention the pockets of organizational resistance predisposed to preserving Enterprise 1.0.

I am honored to network with awesome professionals from major enterprises. I have already learned so much from my council members and find it an incredible opportunity to ask and answer questions on adoption practices. I encourage new evangelists to get involved with the Council.

About the Internal Evangelist Award

One member of the 2.0 Adoption Council will be selected to exemplify the tenacity, courage, and sheer energy it takes to inspire a large enterprise to embrace the principles and practices of Enterprise 2.0. The award will be announced at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

“…the job of the internal evangelist is far, far more difficult. These folks toggle between fighting the good fight every day and then slipping uneasily into a sort of DMZ where they can peek out into the broader community for support and the rejuvenation they need to go on fighting another day. It’s often a thankless job with no clear roadmap for advancement, yet the majority of them do it because they believe in the principles of the 2.0 movement. I celebrate them!”